Workshop Description
Information
A critical initial step in learning to read
and write involves learning to decode
printed words and to generate spellings
of words. Without these abilities, it is not
possible for early elementary school
children to achieve initial reading and
Location
Room 241, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center,
One Magnolia Circle Bldg. Parking will
be at Central Garage or Villages of
Vanderbilt with parking pass mailed to
you along with a map of campus.
in learning to read and for those who are
Contact
t languagelab@vanderbilt.edu
t Melanie Schuele at (615) 936-5256
and spelling are areas of great weakness.
The goal of this workshop is to enhance
educators’ knowledge and skills in
addressing these areas of weakness.
The workshop content includes
opportunities to enhance content
knowledge (thoroughly understand the
links across phonemes, morphemes, and
graphemes) and teaching strategies
(detailed alignment of scaffolding to
child successes and failures so as to
advance child reading and writing
Co-sponsors:
t Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center
t Vanderbilt Leadership Education
in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
(LEND) Program
t Vanderbilt Kennedy University Center
for Excellence in Developmental
Disabilities
Workshop includes lecture, hands-on
activities, and careful exploration of child
case examples.
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This workshop is part of the All About
Language Expert Workshops funded
in part by the U.S. Department of
Education Personnel Preparation
Grant (H325K090304). The purpose of
these workshops is to (a) provide the
training grant students with professional
development in language and literacy
and (b) build community capacity
in language and literacy among
professional educators.
It’s All About Language
Expert Workshop Series
Can I Help You Read and Write?
Scaffolding Strategies to Improve
Decoding and Spelling Skills
Continuing Education Documentation
t All workshop attendees will receive an
the conference.
ASHA CE units: 5.5 clock hours
If you plan to complete the forms for
ASHA CE units, please bring your ASHA
number.
Vanderbilt Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental
Disabilites (LEND) training program, Grant No. T73MC00050 from the
Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS). Workshop content does not necessarily represent
Sponsored by the Vanderbilt Bill
Wilkerson Center, with support from
the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
and the Leadership Education in
Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Program
Speakers
Please register for the conference at
http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/registration
C. Melanie Schuele, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is an
Associate Professor of Hearing & Speech
Sciences at Vanderbilt University School
of Medicine. She obtained her master’s
degree in speech-language pathology
from the University of Texas at Austin,
her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas
Child Language Doctoral Program, and
postdoctoral training at Arizona State
University. Prior to her Ph.D., Dr. Schuele
provided speech-language services in
public schools and early intervention.
Currently, she is the Project Director
for two U.S. Department of Education
personnel preparation grants, preparing
Ph.D. students to conduct language and
literacy research and preparing master’s
students for careers as school speechlanguage pathologists with specialization
in language and literacy. She conducts
research in complex syntax and early
literacy acquisition. Along with Naomi
D. Murphy, Dr. Schuele is the co-author
of
program, to be published by Brookes
Publishing Company. She was elected
Registration Fee
Professionals
$80
Students
$30
Breakfast, lunch, and conference
materials are included with registration.
Payment by credit card should be
made on the registration site. To pay by
purchase order or institutional check,
please register online, choose “pay later”
and email languagelab@vanderbilt.edu
to request payment information.
Schedule
Phonemes, Morphemes,
and Graphemes
Look at Assessment
9:45 - 10:00
Break
10:00 - 11:45
Decoding and Spelling
Strategies
11:45 -12:00
Break
12:00-1:00
Small group discussion
over lunch: Case study
1:00 - 2:30
Decoding and Spelling
Strategies
If there is inclement weather on the day
of the conference, we will notify you and
reschedule the conference.
G. Nicole Davis, Ph.D., is a Research
Assistant Professor of Radiology &
Radiological Sciences and Special
Education at Vanderbilt University. She
earned her master’s degree in Speech
Sciences and doctorates in Speech,
Language, & Hearing Sciences and
Neuroscience from the University of
Colorado at Boulder. After earning
her doctorates, Dr. Davis received
a postdoctoral fellow position in the
Biobehavioral Intervention Training
Program (BITP) at the Vanderbilt
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Kennedy Center. This was a unique
multidisciplinary program, in which
trainees were provided with crossdisciplinary experiences in research
laboratories and clinical settings. She is a
past Associate Director of the Education
and Brain Research Laboratory. Dr. Davis
Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging
Kennedy Center for Research on Human
Development at Vanderbilt University. Her
primary role is as Educational Consultant
to the Vanderbilt Accelerated Academic
Achievement Research Center, which is
studying instructional programs in reading
comprehension for students with the
most severe learning disabilities in grades
3 to 5.
CE Financial/Non-Financial Disclosure
t Melanie Schuele is the co-owner of Intensive
and is/
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and royalties. She receives grant funding in
the form of salary support received from the
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of
Educational Sciences, Maternal Child Health
Bureau, and NIH/NICHD.
Nicole Davis serves on the board of the
Tennessee International Dyslexia Association.